-The Telegraph PM Modi’s Gabbar Singh Tax is the best example of his modus operandi — talk big, and when it’s time to act, make things worse: Congress Traders and shopkeepers will hold a nationwide protest next week against a hike in taxes on a range of products, including food grains and household items, and services that kicked in from Monday. “The 5 per cent goods and services tax on a range of...
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India’s climate impeRATive -Vinod Thomas
-The Hindu For public pressure to drive climate action, we need to consider climate catastrophes as largely man-made In the absence of COVID-19, climate change-induced disasters would have been India’s biggest red alert in recent years. The heatwave that scorched Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, GujaRAT, and New Delhi this year; torrential downpours in south India in 2021; and the super cyclone Amphan that battered West Bengal and Odisha in 2020 are symbols of...
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-The Wire Science The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development set 17 goals – from healthcare and education-based outcomes to social goals. The third of these calls on countries to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages”. One of its sub-goals aims to “end preventable deaths” of newborns and children younger than five years. This is crucial for India because some 26 million children are born every year in India;...
More »Mr. Modi, How are you Going to Handle Wheat? -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in With wheat stocks at a 14-year low and procurement at a 20-year low, how is the RATion system going to deliver this staple to crores of people? At the end of June this year, government procurement of wheat was about 188 lakh tonnes, dramatically down by 57% from last year’s 433 lakh tonnes, as per official figures. This is the lowest procurement amount in the last two decades. It was back...
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-Scroll.in A welfare scheme is not the space for technological experiments. In a state with poor nutrition, the government should act against corruption and exclusion. RATion dealers were siphoning off more than half of the grain entitlement of RATion cardholders. That is what residents of several villages in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district noted at a recent public hearing on the functioning of the public distribution system in the area. The statements of participants...
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